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Legalising the sex trade means state-approved, monetised gangbangs | Tanya Goldhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/legalising-prostitution-state-ruper-everett
Rupert Everett wants to legalise prostitution, but countries that have done so often uncover new, unexpected problems<p>The campaign to legalise prostitution has an advocate in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/apr/21/rupert-everett-sex-is-over" title="">the actor Rupert Everett</a>. He has made a two-part series for Channel 4 called <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/apr/28/rupert-everett-london-soho-prostitution" title="">Love for Sale</a>, in which he interviews prostitutes and punters; there are no pimps, of course, pimps being black-hearted with much to hide. Everett is obviously a romantic who romanticises what he finds because he is drawn to what his interviewee <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/russell-brand" title="">Russell Brand</a> calls "maligned outsiders". At one point he compares prostitution to his own profession, although it is hard to imagine a co-star placing a penis in his mouth, or anus, and giving him money.</p><p>In Love for Sale, the feminist is the enemy of the prostitute, denying her free choices, thwarting her imperatives and daubing her with the mantle of victimhood. Feminists, a prostitute in a Dutch window tells Everett, makes her "feel small". Despite the Liverpool streetwalker insisting, "We are not doing it because we love it"; despite a male prostitute reporting that eight of his colleagues had committed suicide in the previous 18 months because of "loneliness" and "crystal"; despite visiting the Bois de Boulogne, where his prostitute friend was murdered in 1998 ("She wanted to marry you," a mutual friend tells him as they wander through the trees), Everett can only romanticise, and sometimes trivialise. An escort agency has a list of dodgy clients on the wall. "Jonny 12 (rough)" is one such. "Sounds my type," says Everett. He adores the transgressive; even so, he supports legalisation. He thinks it is the only way.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/legalising-prostitution-state-ruper-everett">Continue reading...</a>ProstitutionSocietyRupert EverettSex tradeWed, 30 Apr 2014 17:48:44 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/legalising-prostitution-state-ruper-everettPhotograph: William Baker/PRRupert Everett in Soho: 'He romanticises what he finds because he is drawn to what his interviewee Russell Brand calls maligned outsiders.' Photograph: William BakerPhotograph: William Baker/PRRupert Everett in Soho: 'He romanticises what he finds because he is drawn to what his interviewee Russell Brand calls maligned outsiders.' Photograph: William BakerTanya Gold2014-04-30T17:48:44ZIn praise of … Rupert Everett | Editorialhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/30/rupert-everett
Ever since 1984's Another Country, he has lent complexity to characters that might otherwise be cardboard cutouts<p>Acting is one of those trades that throws up few superstars and many also-rans. Rupert Everett is one of theatre's most famous nearly men: never securely A-list, but staple fodder of the tabloids (take those pictures of him on the arm of Madonna). Ever since 1984's Another Country, Everett has lent complexity to characters that might otherwise be cardboard cutouts, so such a status isn't justified by his talent. Perhaps it's down to his posh-boy deprecation or that – as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/17/g2-interview-rupert-everett" title="">he once told this paper</a> – "if I'd been straight, I'd be doing what Colin Firth and Hugh Grant do." Never mind. If <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mxvcn" title="">the Radio 4 serialisation</a> is any guide, his new memoir, Vanished Years, is a treat; while his latest role, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/sep/12/the-judas-kiss-review" title="">playing Oscar Wilde in The Judas Kiss</a>, is apparently "the performance of his career". That last comment comes from no less an authority than our own Michael Billington. A-list Everett may not be, A-class he most certainly is.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/30/rupert-everett">Continue reading...</a>Rupert EverettFilmCultureSun, 30 Sep 2012 20:29:51 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/30/rupert-everettEditorial2012-09-30T20:29:51ZRupert Everett can't imagine anything worse than two gay dads. Really? | Patrick Strudwickhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/17/rupert-everett-two-gay-dads
The actor seems beset by internalised homophobia. What a pity he can't see how wonderful it is to have two loving parents<p>Rupert Everett suffers from such a paucity of imagination it is all but miraculous he manages to pretend to be other people for a living. The gay actor said yesterday that he "<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5g-CUV9YchCJK4p2P47lCk46werWg?docId=N0215361347875052433A" title="">can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads</a>".</p><p>I can. A thousand worse things come to mind. But one in particular bellows out — and is played out – in households across the world: being brought up by parents who instil prejudice. Who believe, for example, that to be gay is to be lacking, deviant, ungodly, unfit, improper.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/17/rupert-everett-two-gay-dads">Continue reading...</a>Parents and parentingGay marriageLGBT rightsLife and styleMarriageSexualitySocietyFamilyUK newsRupert EverettMon, 17 Sep 2012 17:16:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/17/rupert-everett-two-gay-dadsPhotograph: Charles Platiau/ReutersThe actor Rupert Everett attends the unveiling of the renovated tomb of Oscar Wilde at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris on November 30, 2011. Photograph: Charles Platiau/ReutersPhotograph: Charles Platiau/ReutersThe actor Rupert Everett attends the unveiling of the renovated tomb of Oscar Wilde at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris on November 30, 2011. Photograph: Charles Platiau/ReutersPatrick Strudwick2012-09-17T17:16:06Z